Didier Rykner
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A Bolognese painting for BeauvaisThe Musée départemental de l’Oise (now known by the rather inelegant acronym Mudo) has a collection of 17th- and 18th-century Italian paintings, much of which was built up in the second half of the…
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A sketch for the ceiling of the Opéra donated to the Musée de PicardieHidden for nearly 60 years by Chagall’s ceiling, the painting by Jules-Eugène Lenepveu was intended by Charles Garnier for his opera, which he conceived as a total work of art. Today, all we know of…
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A first visit to the restored Notre-DameIn recent months, the restoration of Notre-Dame has restored the building’s familiar silhouette to the Paris skyline. The spire is rising again, exactly like the one that disappeared in the fire,…
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"Stay Together... Or Else!"For weeks, a number of journalists who had followed the Notre-Dame construction site closely, like the author of these lines, had been asking to be allowed to visit the restored cathedral before the…
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Let’s keep the stained glass and recreate the decor!Nous publierons demain ce que nous avons pensé de la restauration intérieure de Notre-Dame de Paris (spoiler : c’est superbe), mais nous voudrions revenir ici sur l’affaire des vitraux du bas-côté…
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The Tavitian donation at the Clark Art Institute (3)Dans cette troisième brève consacrée au legs d’Aso Tavitian au Clark Institute, nous nous intéresserons aux tableaux néerlandais du début du XVIIe siècle, en commençant par trois œuvre de Joachim…
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Colmar acquires an early 16th-century panelThe vagaries of history have frequently dispersed groups of paintings, thus impoverishing art history and condemning these works, which formed a coherent whole, to no longer being fully understood.…
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The Conservatoire national d’art dramatique finally classified as a historic monumentorique !Roselyne Bachelot told us she had a favourable view of it. Rima Abdul-Malak promised us. But it was Rachida Dati who actually kept that commitment: the Conservatoire national d’art dramatique…
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Update on the Notre-Dame stained-glass windows affairOn 21 November, the ‘artistic commission’ set up by the Ministry of Culture met to choose the artist who would - if all goes wrong - create new stained glass windows for Notre-Dame cathedral. They…
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Liners 1913-1942. A transatlantic aestheticThe exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes is remarkably well staged, with superb works of art to discover. It is therefore well worth a visit, but it should be pointed out that those…
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